Sepiolite-Chitosan-Acetic Acid Biocomposite Attenuates the Development of Obesity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.

Background; obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) reduce life expectancy; nonoperative interventions show poor results. Individually, chitosan (1% /), acetic acid (AA 0.3-6.

From face-to-face to remote evaluation of teacher-education candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although teacher's personality is an essential component of successful classroom learning, most teacher education programs accept students solely on the basis of scholastic ability scores such as school grades, national test scores (SAT, GRE) or undergraduate college transcripts. To ensure suitability to teaching, a personality-evaluation system was developed in Israel for teacher education candidates. This evaluation system includes non-cognitive measures, such as group dynamic exercises, simulations, a teaching exercise, situational judgement tests, personality tests and an inter-personal interview, all performed face-to-face (FTF) at a testing center.

Good pain, bad pain: illness perception and physician attitudes towards rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia patients.

Objectives: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) are common diagnoses encountered in rheumatology practice, but do not enjoy the same status. We aimed to examine physician's illness perceptions regarding these two rheumatologic disorders and to evaluate how they correlate with their relationship with these patients.

Methods: Forty-five rheumatologists were enrolled in the study.

Applying Incongruent Visual-Tactile Stimuli during Object Transfer with Vibro-Tactile Feedback.

The application of incongruent sensory signals that involves disrupted tactile feedback is rarely explored, specifically with the presence of vibrotactile feedback (VTF). This protocol aims to test the effect of VTF on the response to incongruent visual-tactile stimuli. The tactile feedback is acquired by grasping a block and moving it across a partition.